pre-RFR (s): 8049847: Enhance PrintWriter line.separator handling

[Alan Bateman]

On 04/01/2015 20:29, Claes Redestad wrote:
> For the record I would be very happy to update the implementation to use
> System.lineSeparator() in PrintWriter/BufferedWriter rather than reading
> line.separator, thus removing the unspecified behavior to be able to 
> hack the
> current implementation via manipulating system properties. This might 
> break
> some applications, but, as you imply, any such use case might already be
> better accommodated by overriding the PrintWriter#println/printf/format
> methods.
>
> How about closing this bug as WNF and filing a new RFE to remove the
> PrintWriter/BufferedWriter constructor dependencies on line.separator?
>
I don't think it make sense to change the line.seperator property in the 
main method or on the fly. The right thing it is to override the newLine 
method as Sherman suggested. So if these constructors are changed to use 
System.lineSeperator() and we document this behavior change in release 
notes then it seems reasonable for a major release (not for 8uX of course).

For printf/format/Formatter then having %n result in a call to newLine() 
has some appeal. It's doable in Formatter but would require a spec change.

-Alan